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SuiiDiniriL 111 I'arke. W'riiiillion and Vigo counties the Wabash Valley 

 is bordered by massive alluvial terraces, which alternate from cue side to 

 Ihe other, but overlap. They were deposited by a loaded, shifting, braided 

 stream, (Fig. 8) changing rapidly in volume and speed, and represent the 

 outwash from the waning Wisconsin ice sheet. They are remnants of a 

 once more extensive deposit which tilled the valley from bluff to bluff to 

 the height of the terrace tops. The present flood plain is the valley cut out 

 of this deposit by a stream of larger volume, smaller lead and p(»ssi])ly 



I"ii;iin- s. A Toniporary LoikIpcI ami Uniiilocl Stream in a Gravel Pit. 



greater fall and speed than the glacial Wabash. The outlet <<i' glarjal lake 

 •Maumee would lairly meet these re<|uirements. 



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THK r.A(((>0.\ V.\I.I.i:V. IWUKK (Ol'.NTV, T.NI). 



I'ig Kaccodii Creek rises in liooiie ("ounty and flows southwest across 

 Montgomery, I'utnam and I'arke counties to Kosedale, a distance in a 

 straight line of abmit 4."'i miles. .Near Ilosedale it turns to a little west of 

 north and flows ll' miles to its Juiiction with the Wabash. Its up]ier course 



